The Big New Thing at the moment seems to be a moral panic about oxycodone.

“Covid” or the constant breathless reporting about every possible little thing over 3 years did this to me. Not rehash any of it but now 3 years later people like Zuck coming out and saying things like “Woops maybe we censored the wrong things and promoted also the wrong things. Woopsies.”

I thought I was world worn and tough.

Then came AI and I was again on the doom and gloom train. Then I had a moment, realized this just the new thing and dropped it down a few degrees.

What’s next?

> That's why I have a default policy of skepticism towards pretty much everything.

I’m convinced anyone who doesn’t do this is either too young to know better or too dumb to have been paying attention.